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Ah, this is good.  So so good.  Our mindset as redeemed can be so upside down.  Lord, keep prompting my heart with the need to step down from the throne of my heart and give it to the only right and able King.  Give it to Jesus.  Focus on Him, not what I can do.  Let Him be the change in my life as I just simply live for Him. LOOK to Him.

"If I am to be like Him, then God in His grace must do it, and the sooner I come to recognize it the sooner I will be delivered from another form of bondage.  Throw down every endeavor and say, I cannot do it, the more I try the farther I get from His likeness.  What shall I do?  Ah, the Holy Spirit says, You cannot do it; just withdraw; come out of it. You have been in the arena, you have been endeavoring, you are a failure, come out and sit down, and as you sit there behold Him, look at Him.  Don't try to be like Him, just look at Him. Just be occupied with Him. Forget about trying to be like Him.  Instead of letting that fill your mind and hear, let Him fill it.  Just behold Him, look upon Him through the Word. Come to the Word for one purpose and that is to meet the Lord.  Not to get your mind crammed full of things about the sacred Word, but to come to it to meet the Lord.  Make it to be a medium, not of Biblical scholarship, but of fellowship with Christ.  Behold the Lord."

 -Norman Douty

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